Using clamav-0.85-r1 (since the current stable versions moan that they are out of date when updating defs..) The current way that the /etc/init.d/clamd file is setup it seems to ignore options set in /etc/conf.d/clamd. At least in the default setup this means that freshclam fails to start as a daemon and background itself and hence the restart option won't execute correctly either Can someone check this over because also when you background the process you no longer get the return code which shows whether the DB is up to date, so that bit of code needs to be removed as well. Seems a bit of a mix right now? Below is the diff of the changes I made which should work correctly when the conf.d file specifies the "-d" option to run as a daemon. Everything now starts and stops correctly for me --- /tmp/clamd.orig 2005-05-17 09:59:37.000000000 +0100 +++ /etc/init.d/clamd 2005-05-17 10:16:11.000000000 +0100 @@ -17,19 +17,17 @@ fi ebegin "Starting clamd" start-stop-daemon --start --quiet \ - --exec /usr/sbin/clamd + --exec /usr/sbin/clamd -- ${CLAMD_OPTS} eend $? "Failed to start clamd" fi if [ "${START_FRESHCLAM}" = "yes" ]; then ebegin "Starting freshclam" start-stop-daemon --start --quiet \ - --exec /usr/bin/freshclam + --exec /usr/bin/freshclam -- ${FRESHCLAM_OPTS} retcode=$? - if [ ${retcode} = 1 ]; then - eend 0 - einfo "Virus databases are already up to date." - else + if [ ${retcode} -ne 0 ]; then eend ${retcode} "Failed to start freshclam." + einfo "Failed to start freshclam" fi fi } Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: /etc/init.d/clamd restart
Please resync, I forgot to add the "-d" option to the initscript with initial release of 0.85-r1. It was added one day later. As for conf.d/ file, only START_CLAMD and START_FRESHCLAM options are being read from it now, everything else should be read from /etc/clamd.conf and /etc/freshclam.conf - this way there will not be any duplicate configuration, which may clash (use one when user expects another to be used). Sorry about the missing "-d" again.
